Ard1 The Life and Death of King John, ed. Ivor B. John, The Arden Shakespeare, First Series (1907)

  Ard2 King John, ed. E.A.J. Honigmann, The Arden Shakespeare, Second Series (1954)

  Beaurline see Cam2

  Boswell James Boswell, Plays and Poems, 21 vols (1821)

  Braunmuller see Oxf1

  Cam Works, ed. W.G. Clark and W.A. Wright, The Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols (New York, 1863–6)

  Cam1 King John, ed. John Dover Wilson, The New Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1936)

  Cam2 King John, ed. L.A. Beaurline (Cambridge, 1990)

  Capell Mr. William Shakespeare his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, ed. Edward Capell, 10 vols (1767–8)

  Clarke Plays, ed. Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare, 3 vols (1864–8)

  Collier Works, ed. J. Payne Collier, 8 vols (1842–4)

  Collier2 Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems, ed. J. Payne Collier, new edn, 6 vols (1858)

  Collier MS MS annotations probably by J.P. Collier, in Collier’s copy (the Perkins–Collier–Devonshire copy) of F2 in the Huntington Library, and entered by Collier in his own copy of the first of his editions, now in the Folger Shakespeare Library

  Delius Shakespeares Werke, ed. Nicolaus Delius, 7 vols (1854–60)

  Dover Wilson see Cam1

  Dyce Works, ed. Alexander Dyce, 6 vols (1857)

  Dyce2 Works, ed. Alexander Dyce, 2nd edn, 9 vols (1864–7)

  F Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, The First Folio (1623)

  F2 Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, The Second Folio (1632)

  F3 Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, The Third Folio (1663)

  F4 Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, The Fourth Folio (1685)

  Furness see Var

  Furnivall King John, ed. F.J. Furnivall and John Monro (New York, 1908)

  Halliwell Works, ed. J.O. Halliwell, 16 vols (1853–65)

  Hanmer Works, ed. Thomas Hanmer, 6 vols (Oxford, 1743–4)

  Honigmann see Ard2

  Hudson Complete Works, ed. Henry N. Hudson, Harvard Edition, 20 vols (Boston, Mass., 1881)

  I. John see Ard1

  Johnson Plays, ed. Samuel Johnson, 8 vols (1765)

  Jowett see Oxf

  Keightley Works, ed. Thomas Keightley, 6 vols (1864)

  Knight The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere, Doubtful Plays, etc., ed. Charles Knight, 7 vols (1838–43)

  Kyd Thomas Kyd, Works, ed. F.S. Boas (1901)

  McEachern King John, ed. Claire McEachern, The Pelican Shakespeare (2000)

  Malone Plays and Poems, ed. Edmond Malone, 10 vols (1790)

  Matchett King John, ed. William H. Matchett, Signet Shakespeare (New York, 1966)

  Moore Smith King John, ed. G.C. Moore Smith, Warwick Shakespeare (1900)

  Neilson Complete Works, ed. William Allan Neilson, Student’s Cambridge Edition, 3rd edn (Boston, Mass., 1910)

  Oxf King John, ed. John Jowett, in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, gen. eds, Complete Works (Oxford, 1986)

  Oxf1 King John, ed. A.R. Braunmuller (Oxford, 1989)

  Pope Works, ed. Alexander Pope, 6 vols (1723–5)

  Pope2 Works, ed. Alexander Pope, 8 vols (1728)

  Rann Works, ed. Joseph Rann, 6 vols (Oxford, 1786–94)

  Reed Works, 21 vols (1803), rev. and augmented by Isaac Reed, 21 vols (1813)

  Riv2 The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G.B. Evans and J.J.M. Tobin, 2nd edn (Boston, Mass., 1997)

  Rolfe Shakespeare’s History of the Life and Death of King John, ed. William J. Rolfe, English Classics (New York, 1887)

  Rowe Works, ed. Nicholas Rowe, 6 vols (1709)

  Rowe2 Works, revised and corrected, ed. Nicholas Rowe, 8 vols (1714)

  Singer Dramatic Works, ed. S.W. Singer, 10 vols (1826)

  Singer2 Dramatic Works, ed. S.W. Singer, 2nd edn, 10 vols (1856)

  Smallwood King John, ed. R.L. Smallwood, New Penguin Shakespeare (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1974)

  Staunton Plays, ed. Howard Staunton, 3 vols (1858–60)

  Steevens Plays, ed. Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, 10 vols (1773)

  Steevens2 Plays, ed. Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, 10 vols (1778)

  Theobald Works, ed. Lewis Theobald, 7 vols (1733)

  Theobald2 Works, ed. Lewis Theobald, 2nd edn, 8 vols (1740)

  Var A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, ed. Horace Howard Furness (Philadelphia, 1919)

  Warburton Works, ed. William Warburton, 8 vols (1747)

  White Works, ed. Richard Grant White, 12 vols (Boston, Mass., 1857–61)

  Wright King John, ed. W.A. Wright (Oxford, 1886)

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  Baldwin, Latine T.W. Baldwin, William Shakesper’s Small Latine (1944)

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  ELH English Literary History

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  MLR Modern Language Review

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  OED Oxford English Dictionary

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